Safety-pin



(No Model.)

J. T. PAYNE. SAFETY PIN.

No. 601,981. Patented Apr. 5,1898.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH T. PAYNE, oE'swEEfr SPRINGS, MISSOURI.

-SAFETY-PIN.

SECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 601,981, dated April-5, I1898.

Application led May 28, 1897.

To @ZZ whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH T. PAYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sweet Springs, in the county of Saline and State of Missouri, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pins; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in safety-pins; and the object is to provide'a simple, cheap, and effective device of this class; and to this end the novelty consists in the construction, combination, andarrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention. A

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved safety-pin. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 isla detail perspective of the toothed end.

l represents the body of the pin; 2, the integral spring-coil, and 3 the spring-tongue, which terminates in a pointed end 4, provided with a longitudinal eye 5. The free end of the bodyl is formed with a semicir'cular loop 6, and its immediate end is. turned inwardly (to form the tooth 7, which projects into the eye 5 of the tongue andis locked in place by a notch 8.

9 represents the sheet-metal guard which encompasses the loop 6, so as to project on each side of the tooth 7 and the pointed end of the tongue. This guard is iiXed to the pin Serin N6. 638,574. (No man.)

i by crimpingthe metal of which the shield is formed on each side, so as to encompass the loop to fix it in place and atthe same time stiften the pin.

When a pin of this construction is secured in place in a garment, it is practically impossible for it to become laccidentally detached. A

While I have described my improved pinlock as applied to a safety-pin, it is evident that the same construction applies equally well to brea'stpins, brooches, belt-pins, and the like, and in fact it may be utilized wherever a clasp-pin lock of this nature is desirable. y

Having thus fully described my invention,

what l claim as new and useful, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

1sv VThe herein-described safety-pin comprising the body portion l formed with the loop 6 one of the terminal ends of which is turned upward to form a tooth 7 which is provided with a locking-notch 8 and the other end pointed and provided with an eye 5 adapted to engage said tooth and notch, and the sheetmetal guard secured to the said loop so as to protect the tooth and open on both sides, whereby the pointed end may engage said tooth from either side of the guard, substantially as shown'and described.

In testimony'whereof Ihereto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH fr. PAYNE.

Witnesses:

H. K..BENTE, R. S. STEEIT. 

